There are several deep sky images taken and processed that I have yet to put on the blog. Today's entry is something that should have been appropriate for Halloween, perhaps. Its NGC7380, the Wizard Nebula, aka Harry Potter and the Golden Snitch. I can't say how it came by either of those names, but I guess that's why I don't name nebulae. NGC 7380 is a young open cluster of stars in constellation of Cepheus, discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1787. The surrounding emission nebulosity is known colloquially as the Wizard Nebula. The nebula is known as S 142 in the 1959 Sharpless catalog. It is extremely difficult to observe visually.
NGC7380 (open cluster of stars) and Wizard Nebula (S 142)
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